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Reflection
Choose a client over the age of 65 from Lippincott Client Cases for Clinical Judgment to use as an example for this activity. Read through the client's EHR and listen to report as if you were taking care of this client at the bedside. Once completed, reflect on these questions and submit a word document with one paragraph for each of these questions. Ensure you use APA format.
Describe in detail the basic care and comfort needs of this client, utilize the nursing process to describe how you would meet these needs.
What are the nutritional and sensory/perception needs of this client? Describe how you would meet those needs using the nursing process.
What are the integumentary and musculoskeletal needs of this client? Describe how you would meet those needs using the nursing process.
What are the immunity, infectious, and inflammatory needs of this client? Describe how you would meet those needs using the nursing process. Get world-class assignment help from subject experts.
1. Basic Care and Comfort Needs
Thoroughly describes the client's basic care and comfort needs, clearly utilizing the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation) to explain how these needs will be met.
Describes the client's basic care and comfort needs with some detail but only partially applies the nursing process.
Fails to describe the client's basic care and comfort needs or does not apply the nursing process.
2. Nutritional and Sensory/Perception Needs
Provides a comprehensive explanation of the client's nutritional and sensory/perception needs, clearly integrating the nursing process to describe interventions and outcomes.
Addresses the client's nutritional and sensory/perception needs but lacks depth or only partially incorporates the nursing process.
Does not address the client's nutritional or sensory/perception needs or fails to use the nursing process.
3. Integumentary and Musculoskeletal Needs
Fully identifies the client's integumentary and musculoskeletal needs, using the nursing process to outline appropriate care.
Discusses integumentary and musculoskeletal needs with limited detail or only partially applies the nursing process.
Does not describe the integumentary or musculoskeletal needs, or neglects the nursing process.
4. Immunity, Infectious, and Inflammatory Needs
Clearly explains the client's immunity, infectious, and inflammatory needs, applying all stages of the nursing process effectively.
Mentions immunity, infectious, and inflammatory needs but provides insufficient detail or limited use of the nursing process.